Ruta Sepetys Quotes

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

I get transported when I read books.

My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in a land of happily ever afters.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.